Section 25

1Again we said to him, “Lord, we are already ashamed that we question you so often and burden you.” He answered us, “I know that you question me in faith and with your whole heart. Therefore I rejoice over you. Truly I say to you, I rejoice, and my Father who is in me rejoices, because you question me. Your persistence brings me joy and gives you life.”

2When he had said this to us, we were glad that we had questioned him, and we said to him, “Lord, in all things you give us life and have mercy on us. Will you now explain what we ask you?”

3Then he said to us, “Is it the flesh that passes away, or is it the spirit?”

4We said to him, “It is the flesh that passes away.”

5Then he said to us, “That which has fallen shall rise again, that which was lost shall be found, and that which was weak shall recover, so that in these created things the glory of my Father may be revealed. As he has done to me, so will I do to all who believe in me.”